System Requirements

First Light Imaging offers a unique and flexible software package for all C-RED, OCAM² and CB cameras. In the USB drive provided with your camera, you will find a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and a Software Development Kit (SDK).

In order to use C-RED, OCAM² and CB cameras with First Light Vision software and First Light Imaging SDK (FliSDK), the recommended system requirements are the following :

For C-RED and OCAM²:
- RAM : 8Go minimum
- Processor : Intel® CoreTM i5 or higher
- Screen resolution : at least 1920 x 1080

For Andor CB2 0.5F & Andor CB2 1.7F:
- Intel 10th Gen 4 cores CPU or above 
- At least 32 GB of DDR4 RAM (for the Andor CB2 0.5, 16 GB is enough). Any speed should work.
- SSD capable of more than 1.5 GB/s sustained writes. For example, the ‘Samsung MZVLB1T0HBLR’ drive is sufficient.
- A motherboard with a separate 2.1 / 3.1 PCIe (x4 lanes) port or better.
- A dedicated GPU is not strictly necessary but will help with live playback and statistics computation.

For Andor CB2 7.1F and Andor CB2 UV: 
- Intel 11th Gen 4 cores CPU or above 
- At least 64 GB of DDR4 RAM. Any speed should work.
- SSD capable of more than 2.2 GB/s sustained writes. For example, the ‘Samsung MZVLB1T0HBLR’ drive is barely sufficient.
- A motherboard with a separate 2.1 / 3.1 PCIe (x4 lanes) port or better.
- A dedicated GPU will significantly improve the user experience, particularly for live playback.

For Andor CB2 24B:
- Intel 13th Gen Core i9-13900K 3.00 GHz (with 24 cores) or better 
- At least 128 GB of DDR4 RAM. DDR5 is better. At least 3000 MHz.
- SSD capable of more than 4.00 GB/s sustained writes. For example, the ‘Samsung 990 PRO 2TB SSD’ drive is sufficient.
- A motherboard with a separate 3.0 PCIe (x8 lanes) port or better.
- A dedicated GPU is required for live playback and displaying live statistics about your images.

First Light imaging software is cross-platform :

Operating system

• Windows® 10 & Windows® 11
• Linux® Ubuntu 18.04 LTS & 20.04 LTS
• NVIDIA® Jetson Tx2, Xavier NX and Nano (only with USB 3 interface)

Supported Grabbers

Frame grabbers for Camera Link®

• Matrox® Radient eV-CL Camera Link®
• EDT Vision Link F4 Camera Link®
• EURESYS Grablink Full
• BITFLOW Axion 1XE
• Xtium2-CL MX4 Teledyne Dalsa

External frame grabbers for Camera Link®

• PLEORA GigE Vision® 2.0 over 10 GigE

Frame grabbers for CoaXPress

• Matrox® Rapixo CXP-12 Dual/Quad
• Euresys Coaxlink Duo CXP-12

Interfaces

• USB 3.1
• Camera Link®
• CoaXPress 2.0
• GigE Vision 10Gb Ethernet
• GigE Vision 10Gb Fiber optic

Graphical User Interface

Our First Light Vision GUI offers offers a user-friendly and modular environment. For advanced use, extensive plugins can be integrated.
Features include:

• Automatic camera detection
• Configuration: frame rate, exposure time, geometry, on-the-fly NUC…
• Frame acquisition: start, stop, save buffer, load buffer…
• Frame display: clipping, mirroring, rotating…
• Image statistics: image tags, spatial and temporal measurements, standard deviation, average, histogram, cross section…
• Real time camera monitoring: status, temperatures, power consumption…
• Camera maintenance

Latest available version: First Light Vision v2.6.x

Software Development Kit

To assist you in your own software developments, First Light Imaging provides a complete software development kit, which includes multiple examples.
A library of the camera commands is included in the User Manual.
The source code for the demonstration software is available in the multiple development languages and can be used as an exemple to build a custom system:

• C/C++/C#
• Python
• LabView
• MatLab

Plugins to interface other softwares :

• MicroManager
• And more to come…

Latest available version: First Light SDK v2.9.x